The decision followed an Israeli military assessment that women would not be able to handle the burden of combat roles and that it would pose a health risk, despite claims that professionally, female soldiers perform equally to male combatants

The Latvian state prosecution closed the case against Albert Cukurs, 'the Butcher of Riga', last month, but Haaretz's report stirred a dispute between the prosecution and the foreign office, leading to the case re-opening

The Environmental Protection Ministry says the decision not to provide 11 million shekels in funding for green organizations this year is due to budgetary constraints